Still in pain, I guess that's why they've signed me off work for 3 weeks. My last words before falling asleep with the anaesthetic was 'Sometimes knowledge can be a curse', my first words on waking (I don't remember saying this) were 'I am a loaf of bread NOT a cactus.' :p

I keep thinking 'it feels like someone's cut up my tummy' before remembering they did exactly that <_<

The Endometriosis was covering my whole abdominal wall, all the way round. Lazoring didn't work because it was too deep so he had to use a knife instead. It was all over the ligaments holding everything in place too, so things had got stuck to things they shouldn't have.

It feels ridiculous, the hell I had to go through for this. The first symptom came when I was 11 and threw up on the river ride at Animal Kingdom in Florida because of pain. I'm 25 now. It was nearly exactly a year ago that I managed to convince them to even examine me, and agree that this wasn't normal. The average time between the first symptom and diagnosis is 7 years. That's still too long. Women are just dismissed as exaggerating their cramps and believed to be hypochondriacs because people don't want to know. I had to change GP surgery to one miles away just so I could see a doctor who was specialising in women's issues and who I knew would take me seriously as a patient.